Service Academy admissions for a recruited athlete. Anyone btdt?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, I thought you said your kid was not a football player, but maybe I am thinking of a different recruiting thread. Check out service academy forums, if you haven't already. I am not sure I would encourage this kind of time commitment at a SA unless it helps them get in, and they really want to go. Every cadet has to do some physical activity, but D1 football at Army or Navy is going to be a lot more involved than a lower-stress club or rec sport that also fulfills the physical activity requirement. They are not getting a sports scholarship or NIL money, so is it worth it, if they can get in without it? I guess only they can answer that.

I am consistently baffled by this sentiment. Do you only encourage sports for admission advantage? Seems like a fair number of you do, judging by some of the posts I see on the college forum.

You don’t seem to appreciate that some kids are legitimately passionate about their sport. They WANT to spend time on it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, I thought you said your kid was not a football player, but maybe I am thinking of a different recruiting thread. Check out service academy forums, if you haven't already. I am not sure I would encourage this kind of time commitment at a SA unless it helps them get in, and they really want to go. Every cadet has to do some physical activity, but D1 football at Army or Navy is going to be a lot more involved than a lower-stress club or rec sport that also fulfills the physical activity requirement. They are not getting a sports scholarship or NIL money, so is it worth it, if they can get in without it? I guess only they can answer that.

I am consistently baffled by this sentiment. Do you only encourage sports for admission advantage? Seems like a fair number of you do, judging by some of the posts I see on the college forum.

You don’t seem to appreciate that some kids are legitimately passionate about their sport. They WANT to spend time on it.

Depends on the sport.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, I thought you said your kid was not a football player, but maybe I am thinking of a different recruiting thread. Check out service academy forums, if you haven't already. I am not sure I would encourage this kind of time commitment at a SA unless it helps them get in, and they really want to go. Every cadet has to do some physical activity, but D1 football at Army or Navy is going to be a lot more involved than a lower-stress club or rec sport that also fulfills the physical activity requirement. They are not getting a sports scholarship or NIL money, so is it worth it, if they can get in without it? I guess only they can answer that.

I am consistently baffled by this sentiment. Do you only encourage sports for admission advantage? Seems like a fair number of you do, judging by some of the posts I see on the college forum.

You don’t seem to appreciate that some kids are legitimately passionate about their sport. They WANT to spend time on it.

Depends on the sport.

Why? It just seems like so many people on here assume ‘my kid wants to be recruited for his sport in college’ means ‘my kids want to use this sport as an admission advantage but not have to spend too much time on it, and ideally drop it as soon as possible’.

I cannot imagine investing so much time and effort in something primarily for admission advantage. What a sad way to think of things that should be passions